Obama Abandons Any Pretense Of An
“All Of The Above” Energy Plan And Steps Up His Effort To Bankrupt The Coal
Industry
Today,
Obama Will Outline His Latest Energy Plan That Will Expand Greenhouse-Gas
Regulations To Cover Existing Power Plants. “President
Obama will announce Tuesday that he plans to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions
from existing power plants, according to individuals who have been briefed on
the plan but asked not to be identified.” (Juliet Eilperin, “Obama To Announce
Tuesday He Will Regulate Existing Power Plants As Part Of Climate Strategy,” The Washington Post
, 6/22/13)
- Obama’s Latest Regulations
“Would Be Vastly More Costly And Contentious” Than His Previous
Controversial Regulations. “The
administration has already begun steps to restrict climate-altering
emissions from any newly built power plants, but imposing carbon standards
on the existing utility fleet would be vastly more costly and
contentious.” (John M. Broder, “Obama Readying Emissions Limits On Power
Plants,” The New York Times , 6/19/13)
Harvard
Professor Daniel P. Schrag, One Of President Obama’s Advisers On Climate
Change, Said “A War On Coal Is Exactly What’s Needed.” “Daniel P. Schrag, a geochemist who is the head of Harvard
University’s Center for the Environment and a member of a presidential science
panel that has helped advise the White House on climate change, said he hoped
the presidential speech would mark a turning point in the national debate on
climate change. ‘Everybody is waiting for action,’ he said. ‘The one thing the
president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the
conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say
they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly
what’s needed.’” (John M Broder, “Obama to Outline Ambitious Plan to Cut
Greenhouse Gases,”The New York Times, 6/25/13)
OBAMA’S NEW CLIMATE PLAN WILL
EXPAND ON HIS PREVIOUS PLAN THAT WOULD ESSENTIALLY END NEW COAL-POWERED PLANTS
“Last Year
The Environmental Protection Agency Proposed Regulating Greenhouse-Gas
Emissions From New Power Plants.” “For
months, environmentalists have been pressing the White House to regulate
utilities powered by coal and natural gas, which account for a third of the
nation’s greenhouse-gas emissions and 40 percent of its carbon output. Last
year the Environmental Protection Agency proposed regulating greenhouse-gas
emissions from new power plants, but it has delayed finalizing that rule.
According to individuals familiar with the White House plan, who asked not to
be identified since the president has yet to deliver his speech, Obama will
couch the effort not only in terms of the nation’s domestic priorities, but as
a way to meet the administration’s international pledge to reduce the country’s
greenhouse-gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels. According to an
independent analysis by the World Resources Institute, the United States will
need to regulate existing power plants and take other steps as well to meet
that goal.” (Juliet Eilperin, “Obama To Announce Tuesday He Will Regulate
Existing Power Plants As Part Of Climate Strategy,” The Washington Post
, 6/22/13)
- The 2012 EPA Regulation Meant
That Coal-Fired Plants “As They Exist Now Will Not Be Built In The
Future.” “But beyond that, the rule
means that coal-fired power plants as they exist now will not be built in
the future. The standard will generally require that new power plants emit
CO2 at a rate no greater than that of a natural-gas-fired power plant.
Such plants emit about 60 percent less greenhouse gases than coal plants.”
(Erica Martinson, “EPA Hits Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Power Plants,” Politico, 3/26/12)
Obama’s
Greenhouse Rule Would “Effectively Prohibit New Coal-Fired Power Plants.” “President Barack Obama’s proposed emission rules for power
plants effectively prohibit new coal- fired power plants, buttressing the
nation’s shift away from a power source that fueled the Industrial Revolution
to cheap natural gas. Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed the
first limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from U.S. power plants yesterday,
setting a standard natural-gas facilities can meet. A new coal plant, however,
would need carbon-capture technology, which industry lobbyists say isn’t
available at competitive rates.” (Mark Drajem, “Obama Power-Plant Rule Signals
Demise Of ‘Old King Coal,’” Bloomberg, 3/28/12)
- Obama’s 2012 Greenhouse Gas
Proposal “Probably Will Mean That No New Coal-Fired U.S. Plants Will Be
Built After This Year.” “The Obama
administration’s proposal last week to put the first limits on greenhouse
gases from new power plants probably will mean that no new coal-fired U.S.
plants will be built after this year, but that won’t slash coal use
anytime soon.” (Renee Schoof, “EPA Climate Proposal could Limit Coal’s
Future, At Least In US,” McClatchy, 4/1/12)
THE OBAMA WAR ON COAL IS KILLING
JOBS & RAISING COSTS ACROSS THE NATION
According
To The American Coalition For Clean Coal Electricity, 288 Coal Units Across 32
States Are Currently Slated To Close Because Of EPA Policies. (“Coal Unit Shutdown,” American Coalition For Clean Coal Electricity,
6/20/13)
- The Projected Coal Unit
Closures Represent 41,303 Megawatts Of Electricity. (“Coal Unit Shutdown,” American Coalition For Clean Coal Electricity ,
6/20/13)
Between
2009 And 2012, Credit Suisse Estimated Coal Plant Closures At 111 Plants –
“One-Fifth Of The Nation’s Nearly 500 Coal Plants
.” “But in the past two years, an increasing number of coal-powered electricity
plants across the country have announced closures. Estimates vary, but banking
and industry analysis firm Credit Suisse put expected and known closures for
2009-2012 at 111 plants, that’s one-fifth of the nation’s nearly 500 coal
plants.” (Lisa Desjardins, “The War Over Coal Is Personal,” CNN, 7/17/12)
Last Year,
The Energy Information Administration Projected That 2012 Coal Retirements
Would Constitute “The Largest One-Year Amount In The Nation’s History.” “The coal-fired capacity expected to be retired over the
next five years is more than four times greater than retirements performed
during the preceding five-year period (6.5 GW). Moreover, based on EIA data,
the approximate 9 GW of coal-fired capacity retirements expected to occur in
2012 will likely be the largest one-year amount in the nation’s history.” (“27
Gigawatts Of Coal-Fired Capacity To Retire over The Next Five Years,” Energy Information Administration, 7/27/12)
Even Fellow Democrats Have
Criticized The Impact Of Obama’s Disastrous Energy Policies
“Some
Democrats, Including Those Hawkish About Climate Action, Also Worry That Tough
New Standards On Power Plants Could Slow Job Growth And Raise Energy Costs…” “Some Democrats, including those hawkish about climate
action, also worry that tough new standards on power plants could slow job
growth and raise energy costs, particularly in places like the industrial
Midwest that depend on cheap power from coal. But administration officials
signaled that Mr. Obama had decided the risks from climate change outweighed
the potential economic and political costs from taking steps to address it.”
(John M. Broder, “Obama Readying Emissions Limits On Power Plants,” The New York Times
, 6/19/13)
Sen. Joe
Manchin (D-WV) Condemned The Obama Administration’s “Attempts To Destroy Our
Coal Industry And Way Of Life In West Virginia.” “Announcing
the suit against the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of
Engineers, Mr. Manchin, a Democrat, condemned what he called the Obama
administration’s ‘attempts to destroy our coal industry and way of life in West
Virginia.’” (Erik Eckholm, “West Virginia Sues U.S. Over Mining Restrictions,” The
New York Times, 10/7/10)
- Manchin: “This EPA Is Fully
Engaging In A War On Coal, Even Though This Country Will Continue To Rely
On Coal As An Affordable, Stable And Abundant Energy Source For Decades To
Come.” (“Sen. Manchin: EPA Fully Engaged
In A War On Coal,” The Herald-Dispatch, 3/27/12)
- Manchin: “This Is What
Happens When This Country Doesn’t Have A True All-Of The-Above Energy Approach.
Instead Of Trying To Completely Eliminate Coal In The Long-Term, The EPA
Should Be Trying To Work With Industry.” (“Sen.
Manchin: EPA Fully Engaged In A War On Coal,” The Herald-Dispatch, 3/27/12)
Gov. Earl
Ray Tomblin (D-WV), On The EPA’s Regulations: “Yet Another Example Of The EPA’s
Inappropriate Use Of Its Regulatory Authority … We Should Be Working To Make
Our Country More Energy Independent And Create Jobs, Not Harm Them.” “Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said the regulation will severely
hurt West Virginia by reducing jobs and unnecessarily increasing the cost of
power for its citizens. ‘This latest announcement is yet another example of the
EPA’s inappropriate use of its regulatory authority to set policy for our
country,’ Tomblin said. ‘… We should be working to make our country more energy
independent and create jobs, not harm them.’” (“Sen. Manchin: EPA Fully Engaged
In A War On Coal,” The Herald-Dispatch, 3/27/12)
THIS IS NOTHING NEW: THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION HAS CONSISTENTLY STATED ITS DESIRE TO “BANKRUPT” COAL PLANTS
Then-Presidential
Candidate Obama, On His Energy Plans In 2008: “If Somebody Wants To Build A
Coal Plant, They Can – It’s Just That It Will Bankrupt Them…” OBAMA: “So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they
can – it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be
charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.” (Sen.
Barack Obama, Interview With The San Francisco Chronicle‘s
Editorial Board, 1/17/08)
- In 2007, Then-Presidential
Candidate Said “I Don’t Think There’s Much Of A Role For Clean Coal In
Energy Independence,” And “Clean-Coal Is Not The Route To Go In The United
States.” BIDEN: “I don’t think there’s
much of a role for clean coal in energy independence, but I do think
there’s a significant role for clean coal in the bigger picture of climate
change. Clean-coal technology is not the route to go in the United States,
because we have other, cleaner alternatives.” (Amanda Little, “An Interview
With Joe Biden About Energy And The Environment,” Grist.org,
8/30/07)
Biden, In
2008: “No Coal Plants Here In America.” BIDEN: “We’re not supporting clean coal.
Guess what, China is building two every week – two dirty coal plants. And it’s polluting the United
States. … No coal plants here in America. Build them – if they’re going to
build them over there, make them clean because they’re killing you.” (Joe
Biden, Remarks At A Campaign Event, Maumee, OH,
9/16/08)
- In 2007, Biden Ranked Coal
Ahead Of High-Fructose Corn Syrup And A Terrorist Attack As More Likely To
Contribute To The Death Of An Average American. HBO’s BILL MAHER: “Senator Biden, forgetting about the
upcoming Iowa caucus for just a moment, which would you honestly say is
more likely to contribute to the death of your average American: a
terrorist strike or high-fructose corn syrup and air that has too much coal
in it?” BIDEN: “Air that has too much coal in it, corn syrup next, then a
terrorist attack. But that is not in any way to diminish the fact that a
terrorist attack is real. It is not an existential threat to bringing down
the country, but it does have the capacity, still, to kill thousands of
people. But hundreds of thousands of people die and their lives are
shortened because of coal plants, coal-fired plants and because of corn
syrup.” (Sen. Joe Biden, Slate,
Yahoo, The Huffington Post Presidential Forum, 9/13/07)
The Wall
Street Journal: “For Three
Years The Environmental Protection Agency Has Imposed A De Facto Ban On New
Coal-Fired Power While Doing Everything It Can To Harm Existing Coal Plants.” (Editorial, “Killing Coal,” The Wall
Street Journal, 4/5/12)
- The Wall Street Journal: “The Agency Is Conceding That
Coal Development Has Been Shut Down As A Result Of Its Many New
Regulations, Such As The Recent Mercury Rule And The Illegal Permitting
Delays That A Federal Appeals Court Slapped Down Last Week.” (Editorial, “Killing Coal,” The Wall
Street Journal, 4/5/12)
The Wall
Street Journal: Coal Is
Not Part Of Obama’s “All Of The Above” Energy Strategy. “Everyone in Washington including President Obama claims to
favor an ‘all of the above’ energy portfolio. As misguided as that is-far
better to let markets decide which energy sources to develop-the EPA has now
admitted that Mr. Obama doesn’t really mean it. Coal is not part of his ‘all.’”
(Editorial, “Killing Coal,” The Wall Street Journal, 4/5/12)
GINA MCCARTHY, OBAMA’S EPA PICK,
HAS WAGED HER OWN WAR AGAINST COAL
As Head Of
The EPA’s Clean Air Division, McCarthy Has “Been A Central Player In Developing
Greenhouse-Gas Rules.” “She has already been a central
player in developing greenhouse-gas rules proposed last year that would
effectively rule out new coal-fired power plants using existing commercially
viable technology.” (Tennille Tracy, Keith Johnson, and Ryan Tracy, “Insider
Emerges As Top Contender For EPA Job,” The Wall Street Journal, 2/14/13)
- FLASHBACK: In April, McCarthy
Assured The Senate That The EPA Was Not “Currently Developing Any Existing
Source GHG Regulations For Power Plants.” “Now
that the president is proceeding with regulating greenhouse gas emissions
from existing power plants, Senate Republicans are likely to be even
tougher on McCarthy, who informed them in April the agency was not
drafting such regulations. In responses submitted April 30 to the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee’s top Republican David Vitter
(La.), McCarthy made the point three times, in almost exactly the same
phrase: ‘EPA is not currently developing any existing source GHG
regulations for power plants,’ she wrote, referring to greenhouse gas
emissions.”
At Obama’s
EPA, McCarthy Took On “Much Of The Heavy Lifting Of Writing, Structuring, And
Implementing” “Controversial New Climate And Clean Air Rules.” “EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has taken most of the fire
from Republicans as her agency rolls out a slew of controversial new climate
and clean air rules. But McCarthy, the EPA assistant administrator of the
Office of Air and Radiation, has taken on much of the heavy lifting of writing,
structuring, and implementing the rules.” (Coral Davenport, “EPA Official Was
Romney’s ‘Green Quarterback,’” National Journal, 9/22/11)
McCarthy
“Helped Fashion Tough New Emissions Standards” That “Would Make It Virtually
Impossible To Build Any New Coal-Fired Power Plants In The United States.” “As a senior E.P.A. official in Mr. Obama’s first term, she
helped fashion tough new emissions standards for cars and light trucks,
tightened standards for mercury and other harmful pollutants in the air, and
issued the first proposed regulations for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
gas pollutants for new power plants. Those new rules would make it virtually
impossible to build any new coal-fired power plants in the United States.”
(John Broder and Matthew Wald, “Obama To Nominate New Heads For Energy Department
And EPA,” The New York Times
, 3/4/13)
McCarthy
Is In Charge Of Writing New EPA Emissions Rules That “Would Essentially Bar
Construction Of Any New Coal-Fired Power Plants.”
“The E.P.A., which the Supreme Court granted authority to regulate carbon
dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, is in the midst of writing regulations
governing such emissions from new power plants. Those rules, expected to be
completed this year, would essentially bar construction of any new coal-fired
power plants unless they included the means to capture carbon gases, a
technology that does not yet exist on a commercial scale.” (John Broder and
Matthew Wald, “Cabinet Picks Could Take On Climate Policy,” The New York Times
, 3/5/13)
Source: GOP.com
Comments:
Natural Gas would be the way to go, if we really had a
global warming problem, but we don’t.
Conversion to natural gas should not be forced by government. If it is, our electric bills will go up. How did you allow these clowns to be elected
anyway ?
Obama and Biden don’t care if we die. They support UN Agenda 21 and that calls for
global population reduction from 7 billion humans to 500,000 humans, all
huddled in transit villages and ruled by their Global Communist government.
Killing our energy production is part of the plan to destroy the private sector,
enslave and dispose of us.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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